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American Speech

Dave Wilton, Saturday, June 02, 2007

American Speech. Vols. 1-84. Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society, 1925-.

Quarterly journal of the American Dialect Society.

Filed under: Oft-Used Sources English Dialects

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